The Sun. — London, England, 1838-02-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS It will be seen from the proceedings in the House of Commons last night, that Sir Samuel Whalley has been unseated for the borough of Marylebone, on ac count of his want of qualification, and that the elec tors are now again called upon to supply his place. What their decision will be there can be no manner of doubt. The Borough is, and always has been, es sentially Liberal. It must now elect a representative, if it mean to he consistent, of decided Liberal opinions ; and among all the candidates for the vacant seat, who are directly or indirectly mentioned as having a claim to it, who is there inure fit to represent the Borough than Mr. Ewalt ? As wealthy and independent as be is liberal and honest and consistent, the electors c f Marylebone can do themselves no higher honour than that of selecting him as their representative. Mr. Ewart is not a professed Reformer. He is now what he has always has been—a sincere Reformer. He is an advocate for the adoption of the Ballot—he is an advo cate for the Extension of the Suffrage---for the frequent responsibility of Parliament to the nation—for the diffusion of general education, and the free admis sion of the people to national institutions—for a miti gation of the criminal laws—and, finally, for a repeal of the corn laws and of the window tax ! What more can the people of Marylebone desire ? And what better man can they propose, or desire to be repre sented by ? Mr. Ewart is not a new man, in any sense of the word. He is well known as a staunch and un flinching Liberal, and his votes prove that, upon all the questions referred to, he has never flinched from his duty. But it is needless to say more upon this subject. Mr. Ewart's election is certain, if the Libe rals will only exert the same ardour, and manifest the same activity that they did upon the occasion of the last election, when Mr. Hall was brought in at the bead of the poll. If they sleep or slumber, or do not exert themselves, Lord Teignmouth will ride rough shod over them, and the borough will be completely nullified. Men of Marylebone, be up and doing— you have only seven days from this date to complete your arrangements—be up and doing, for in delay there is the utmost danger.—. Morning Advertiser. The repeated warnings which occur in Lord Glenelg's dispatches to the Governor of Jamaica, laid before Parliament in the last two years, were proved, in the debate of Tuesday night in the House of Lords, to have been given in all sincerity of purpose. One appeal after another having been made in vain to the local legislature to remedy the defects in the laws for the protection of the apprentices, the course so often pointed out as the alternative is at length taken by the Government, and Parliament is called upon to carry out the objects of the Abolition Act, and see them duly enforced. This is not, indeed, to be done by such means as are contemplated in Lord Brougham's resolutions, which (with the exception of the Ist and sth) either are not adapted to meet the particular kind of evils which really attach to the ap prenticeship system, or fall short of the extent of remedy required. Lord Brougham had evidently no ex•. pectation of carrying his 6th resolution for the abolition of the apprenticeship, else why pro pound the preceding ones, of which the object is to secure a better treatment of the apprentices as such, and the due division of them into prxdials and non-phedials, the tatter of whom are entitled to their discharge on the Ist of .August, 1838, and the former not till the Ist of August, 1840. His real aim was, therefore, the same with that of the Govern ment, namely, to clear the system of abuse ; but with the exception of the two points of hours of labour and regulation of gaols, he does not seem to have exactly apprehended which were the grievances to be got rid of. We will point out at first the heads of abuse and remedy on which Lord Brougham and Lord Glenelg are concurrent ; next, those which are treated of by both, but with a difference of purpose ; and, lastly, those which are not touched by Lord Brougham'e re solution:, but are disposed of by Lord Glenelg's. First, then, there is the nine-hours system, aimed at in Lord Brougham's first resolution, and which has formed the subject of so much correspondence between Lord Glenelg and Sir Lionel Smith. By the terms of the Abolition Act the planter could exact labour from the prdial apprentice to the extent of forty-five hours in the week, if he subsisted him besides ; but in Jamaica the subsistence is given by an allowance of land and of time to till it, which time coonAltutes a deduction of four hours and a half from the forty-five. Thus the planter could claim forty hours and a half of labour in the week ; and he had it in his power to distribute them as he thought fit. The wise planter, who consulted the interests of his apprentices as even tually involving his own, allowed them to work nine hours a day for four days and a half, thus leaving them a day and a half clear at the end of the week for their own use. The tyrannical planter made them work for five days of the week, at eight hours a day, thereby leaving the negro his ninth hour in each day, instead of his four hours and a half on Friday. Of what use was his ninth hour to him ?—daylight was nearly gone ; his strength was exhausted ; his pret;sion ground was distant. It was, as Lord f- ilenelg de scribed it, the refuse of his day. T L ite remedy to be applied is to give the Govemor power to enforce the nine-hour system. 9.. The gaols and workhouses have been (especie..y in Jamaica) the very :strong holds of calcite:at abuse, and the officers of the Crown cod neither inspect nor control theta, because the Assemblies chose to keep them exclusively under municipal jurisdiction. As soon as the necessary re ports have been received from Captain Pringle, who has gone to inquire into their state, a measure is to be brought forward for placing them under the autho rity of the Crown. These are the two articles on which Lord Brougham's resolutions tally with Lord Glenelg's proposed measures ; and an ample exposition of the necessity for them will be found in the corre spondence between Lord Glenelg and the Governor of Jamaica, recently laid before Parliament. 3. On the defects in the classification of apprentices, Lord Brougham does not seem to have seised the precise na ture of the remedy needed. He wiehes to declare all ap prentices who are at present registered as non-prmdials to be still nonlereedials on the Ist August, 1838, notwith standing any change of employment, &c., since their regisiration. This is not the thing wanted ; for it is already effected by the fourth clause of the Abolition Act, which determines the class of the apprentice, not by the nature of his subsequent employment, but by that of his employment for twelve months before the passing of the Act. The real evil is, that the classifi cations which have taken place under the Act have been made without giving the apprentices any ade quate opportunity of proving the fact of their employ ment as non-prxdials for the prescribed twelve months. It is to the correction of this evil, therefore, that Lord Glenelg's measure is directed. 4. Lord Brougham would prohibit flogging of females, or their corporal pu nishment under any pretence, and secure the discharge of any female so punished contrary to law. Lord Glenelg is prepared to abolish flogging alto gether, whether o f f ema l es or ma l es, f or any o ff ence as between master and apprentice ; and is further repared to emp ower t h e G overnors to grant the ime! ediate discharg e o f any apprent i ce who has been ' altreated. 5. L or d B roug h am d es i res that all ques :ions arising b e t ween master an d apprentice should be : ecided by th e s p ec i a l mag i strate without appeal. All questions arising out of the rights and duties pre scribed by the Abolition Act must already he so de cided accordi ng to t h e terms of that Act. The thing really wanted, and which Lord Glenelg's intended Bill will effect, is to defend the apprentices, by defending their protectors, the special magistrates, and giving the governors power to shield them from vexatious prosecu tions and actions for damages before colonial courts and planting juries. In addition to the foregoing mea sures, there are two mentioned by Lord Glenelg which it does not seem to have occurred to Lord Brougham to adopt, though L or d Gl ene l g ' s correspondence with Sir Lionel Smith (the vigorous and plain-dealing Governor of Jamaica) clearly demonstrates that some thing ought to be done on the subject. Ist, The valua tions of the price at which the apprentices are to be entitled to purchase their own discharges. 2d, The continuance of divers allowances and indulgences which were always enjoyed by the negroes whilst slaves, but are not - legally secured to them now, be cause the abolition law assigned to them only such allowances as they had according to the law, not ac co ding oto the usage of slavery. These are both (more especially the latter) points of great practical impor tance in the measures to be taken for the melioration of the system of apprenticeehip.—Morning Chronicle. Mr. Handley, one of the Members for Lincolnshire, has published a letter to the Earl Spencer upon the formation of a national agricultural institution. So far as the scheme of the Hon. Member goes, it doie, not appear to be entitled to much attention, either from the originality of its conception, or the views which it derelopes for the promotion of sound agri cultural kno-.vledge ; but in the course of the Hon. Member's pamphlet there arc not a few incidental re marks, purporting to arise out of the practical infor !nation of the writer, the discussion of which may be useful to the public. In bringing before the landed and farming interest a new project for an Agricultural Association, Mr. Handley perceives the necessity of an allusion to the " Board of Agriculture," so long carried on under the superintendence of the zealous and indefatigable Sir John Sinclair, and the " com parative failure" of that Board. He argues, however, that the fate of the Board of Agriculture ought not to operate as a discouragement to a similar attempt at the present period. That Board existed for 20 years prior to 1817—a period at which Mr. Handley assumes that it was least likely " to attract the settled attentio n cr to command the energies of agriculturists." A period of war is, in the opinion of the Hon. Member, iii suited to national improvements of any kind. " During the continuance of war prices," he says, " when half a crop remunerated the grower, and the most slovenly farmer amassed wealth, the usual in ducements to extraordinary exertions were wanting ; and we of the present day, to whom the quotations of wheat from six to eight guineas per quarter' are but as dreams of fiction, are not only not surprised that our more fortunate predecessors did not effect more— we only wonder that, if possible, they did not exert themselves less." We are not sure that we know ex actly what Mr. Handley means in this last sentence, and we rather opine that the whole savours a little too much of the theoretical political school to which Mr. Handley belongs. Truth is better than any theory, and during the late war, more especially b e tw een th e year 1802 and the year 1815, the increase of national wealth was more rapid, than during any corresponding period in English history. The reason is obvious. War insured protection to native industry ; and that protection secured high prices. War, however, is not necessary in order to attain these great results. It is quite possible to protect native industry, without shed ding human blood. Instead of it being true that the high price of a g ricultural produce was an i n d uce m en t to " slovenly farming," the fact is quite the other way. It was than that it became worth a farmer's while to take good care that his land yielded every ounce of produce which it possibly could yield, and consequently crops upon old tillage lands were doubled, while lands formerly waste were brought into cultivation, and rich fertility arose, where in all preceding time, there had been nothing but useless weeds, or unsightly and gloomy sterility. Still, however, we do not seek to deny that the farmers of the present day pos sess much more skill than the farmers of 30 years back. " The farmers are at length convinced," continues Mr. Handley, " that it is not in Parliamentary interfer ence that they must seek a remedy—that they must look to their own resources and their own energies, and be cheapening the cost, and increasing the amount of production, pave the way to future prosperity." These assumptions may be safely denied. The most nrosperons state of things (as proved by experience) is when a good remunerating price enables and encourages the agriculturist to give his chief attention to the increase of production, rather than to the cheapening the cost of it. Thrift is a good thing, but the prosperity arising from mere thrift does not diffuse itself, and make a people happy, like that arising from an abun dant return for enterprise and industry in the shape of profit. As to the allegation that farmers feel now that Parliamentary interference can do nothing for them, the state of the case is simply this. The farmers have discovered that their landlords will not make the slightest effort to aid them, so long as rents can be paid—and from the mercantile interest in Parliament, the farmers, of course, have nothing to expect. But that the farmers of England, have ever come to the conclusion, that it is not in the power of Parliament to aid them, is untrue. Mr. Handley quotes Latin, says much about agricultural science, and seerna to think that anlAssociation specially agricultural, and having in other respects a resemblence to the British Association of Science, would be a good thing. It might be a good thing for the amusement of fanciful agricultural gentlemen, but we think it would do very little good to farmers. It might turn out upon the agricultural world a good many scientific fops who would make experiments, talk a che mical jargon, and do no good. We think that no such quackery is wanting. Let there be a good remu nerating price for agricultural produce, and it will en courage improvements more than a million of associa t'.3ns.—Morning Herald. It seems to be the misfortune of Ministerial 'Whigs, neither to be capable of themselves adhering to any fundamental principle in politics, or of understanding that adherence on the part of others. They do not seem capable even of distinguishing between those po litical arrangements which include principles of Go vermnent and those which are in the nature of machi nery merely, and subject, therefore, to be removed or altered as may be found most expedient for the working out of the principles to whieh they arc appended. For example hen Sir Robert Peel affirms his determina tion to abide by the principles of representation settled in the Reform Act, and justly charges with instability of mind those who, having themselves made that great settlement, arc now willing to depirt from it, he is an swered that he has himself consented to alterations of the Reform Act. True, he has done so ; but these al terations were in the machinery of the Act, the mode of registering or recording the suffrages of the people. But he nev er co nsen t e d to any alteration in the nature of the suffrage itself, as arranged and (according to the general belief o f th e per i o d) se ttl e d b y t h e f ramers o f the Reform Act. Now, the " Parliamentary Electors Bill," which was read a third time in the House of Commons on Monday night, is a very material alteration in that concurrence of circumstances which, by the Reform Act, was ordained to be necessary in order to entitle men to vote for Members of Parliament. The holding of a tenement of the yearly value of 101. is popularly called the qualification for voting, but it :s by no means all the qualification. That, indeed, was held to be good prima facie evidence of a man's right to rote ; but because an embarrassed or an in solvent man might be the holder of a 101. house, and not be in a condition of independence as respects property, it was thought proper to have additional circumstantial evidence. The payment of poor rates and Government taxes up to a period within three months of the time of annual registration was decreed by the Reform Act to be es essential a part of the qualification as the occupation of a tenement of the value of 101. a year. It was a fundamental principle of the Reform Act that the vastly important new fran chise which it created in towns should be a franchise indicative of solvency. That principle is tampered with and overthrown by the new Bill, which allows an additional six months' arrear in the payment of rates and taxes, and decrees that such arrear shall not damnify the qualification. And when Sir Robert Peel, in the just and able discharge of his important duty, as guardian of the established Constitution (which duty the present Ministers of the Crown have abandoned to the Conservative Opposition), re monstrated against this violation of an important principle of the Reform Bill, a Minister answers him by reference to previous alterations in mere details. " You are violating au important principle of the great national settlement of 1832," said Sir Robert Peel ; " you are altering the nature of the elective franchise then established." " Oh," replies Lord John Russell, " you have yourselves consented to great changes —you have allowed the days for poll ing to be altered —and the polling places to be altered —and you are even now willing that the shilling fee or registration may be done away ; how can you con sistently object to alteration now ?" Here did the little peddling mind of the Minister betray itself. He sees, or he pretends to see, no distinction between an altera tion of the franchise —one of the most important things, if not the most im d i t ;_ a orta ni n ( t, which ture of this count r y may alterationan Leo'fistilaie- time and manner in which that franchise may be excl.• cised at elections ! It is curious and instrue. five to see how these men, who have no sound settled principles to rest upon, change then tone of speaking upon the very same thing, according to the temporary circumstances which press upon them. The Parliamentary Electors Bill is a concession to the extreme Radicals which the Administration finds it prudent to make. The main object of that Bill is the conciliation of a certain party, and principle is put wholly out of the question. Lord John Russell, therefore, spoke on Monday night as thou;11 he was quite au advocate for changes in the Reform Bill, and thought that any objection to change for its own sake was ridiculous. But on the first night of the Session, when his cue was not the the conciliation of the extreme Radicals, but of the Conservative Opposition, his tone was just the oppo site. In allusion to this very measure which has now passed the third reading . and which he then announced but did not describe, Lord John proceeded to say, that, " having only five years ago reformed the repre sentation, and placed it on a new basis, it would he a most unwise and unsound experiment to begin the process again—tojrvin a new suffrage, and to look for other and new securities for the re presentation of the people." After this statement his Lordihip went on in the following strain : "Do I then say that the people of England deprived of the right of considering the provisions of the Reform Act ? I say no such thing. I maintain that the people of England are fully entitled to do so, if to the people of England it shall so seem fit. But lam not myself going to do so. I think that the entering into this question of the construction of the representation so soon again would destroy the stability of our institutions. It is quite im possible for me, having been one who brought forward the measure of Reform, who feels bound by the • declarations then made to take any part in these measures of recon struction, or to consent to the repeal of the Reform Act, without being guilty of what I think weuld he a breach of faith towards those with whom I was then acting. If the people of England are not of that mind they may reject me. They may place others in my situation, but they must not call upon me to do that which I not only consider unwise, but which I should not feel myself justified, with out a breach of faith and honour, in proposing." Thus did the leading Minister in the House of Commons talk on the first night of the Session, and vet we find him before Lent has commenced labouring. to alter, by Act of Parliament, a fundamental prin cible of that boasted reform of the representation, and affecting a sneer at the scruples of those who pro test against a change in that great settlement I We have made the above quotation from Lord J. Russell's speech at the openitig of the Session— not as approving of it—but because it shows how destitute the man is of steadiness and consis tency. We think it shabby and despicable, in a Minister, to hold out to the people that they, to be sure, may do what they please—but for himself he will not be the instrument. This would be a very proper sort of independence on the part of one's butler or footman, but a Minister of State should address the people in a difkrent manner. He is not their servant, but the servant of the Crown, and the trustee of their interests. Lord John Russell, if he really hold the opinions which he professes to hold regarding the Reform Act, should tell the people that he will not only refuse to be a party to any alteration of its principles, but will do all he can to hinder any body and everybody else from altering them. What an honest and independent Statesman believes to be for the good of the people he will maintain to the last, whether the people are pleased to agree with him or not. The good of the people, and not the will of the people, is that which an honest Statesman should con sult.—Morning Post. Among the most curious occurrences of late date, as indications of the spirit which rules the Melbourne Cabinet, is the honorary distinction bestowed upon Colonel de Lady Evans, whereby he has become a Knight Commander of the Bath. Why has such a decoration been bestowed upon Colonel De Lacy Evans ? What public service has he rendered to this country to entitle him to such an honour ? What rank does he hold in the British army consistent with this act of extraordinary favour? Why should the rules and regulations heretofore, for, we believe, 15 years past, acted upon by the Sovereign in the grant of this military order be superseded in the case of Colonel De Lacy Evans, and all the Majors-General of the army of Great Britain be passed over and set aside that he alone might be exalted ? One of the rules by which the grant of the decoration of the Bath has for many long years been restricted is, that the title of Knight Commander should not be conferred upon any military person of rank inferior to that of Major-General. Another rule —and one which has in no case, as we are informed, of a British subject been dispensed with since the year 1818—is, that none should obtain the distinction of a Knight Commander who had not already been a Companion of the Bath. Now, in respect of Colonel Evans,theEbots,h,ansis not above a laws Major-General beenii have h ev. Britisht Colonel ed. service, yet has obtained the Knight Commandery of the Bath. The gallant Colon e l, moreover, has been l made a Knight Command e r p er s at um , never having previously enjoyed the r an k of Knight Companion. We repeat our question, why have such things hap pened ? Col. Evans i s R a di ca l M em b er of. Parliament for Westminster. H e h as vote d w i t h h er Majesty's present Ministers against Conservatism on all occa sions, against Radi ca li sm i tse lf on some . He is, in fact, if we may judge the Gallant Officer by his votes, a thorough-going fag of the Treasury. Hence it was quite natural f or th e G a ll ant G ent l eman to l oo k for his reward. That he did look for it, but in a shape more substantial than that of a riband at his button-hole, the rumours current throughout society have long since assured us. Colonel Evans appears to have been a candidate for that official Godsend the clerkship of the Ordnance, vacat e d b y Si r A . L e i th Hay. The Queer's advisers, o r ra th er masters, calculated that t h ey cou ld turn the G o d sen d to better profit than by bestowing. it on Colon e l D e Lacy Evans ; they accordingly. (it report sp ea k trut h) rejected the pretens i ons of the ? Gallant Col one l. B ut what was to b e d one He was Member for 'Westminster. He had a vote in the House of Commons. He was not a personage to be flung off without compensation. The compensa tion w as f oun d f or h i m at the expense o f t h e Bri tish army an d o f t h e Order of the B at h, a ll the General Officers of th e f ormer , an d a ll the Knights Companions of the latter, being sent to the right about in deference to this Radical rival, who was des titute of both claims to the distinction sought for. We observe, it is true, that Colonel De Lacy Evans is described in the Gazette of Tuesday as Lieutenant- General in the armies of her Majesty t h e Queen of " Spain." Is thi s , th en , t h e j ust ifi cat i on on which Ministers mean to rest the irregular and otherwise indefensible promotion of Colonel Dc Lacy Evans to a strictly national honour ? What right has a Spanish Lieutenant-General to be made a Knight Commander of the Bath ? Is it for the luxuriant laurels which he gained while at the head of the ill-started Legion ? What must be the feelings of those mutilated, fam b ished wretches, that one meets with in piebald shreds and rags at the corner of every hi g h way, when they see the red riband on the breast of him under whose aus pices so many of their mi sera bl e comrades were led to utter extermination, and all to disaster and ultimate defeat ! Where are the victories by which this Spa nish Christine General gained hi s r i g h t to eclipse and supersede the just pretensions of hundreds of British officers I What are his trophies but the tattered, l eg l e ss, armless, breadless, remnants of the unhappy legion ! He is Radical Member for -Westminster, that's all—but that to such a Minist r y i s all-suffi cient. Poor King William would rather have anni hilated the Order of the Bath than exposed it to such humiliating jobbery.--fines. FATAL COACH ACCIDENT.--A fatal accident happened to Gamble, the coachman of the Yeovil ma il , on Wednesday evening, between \Vhitchurch and Andover, caused by the leaders shying at an old oak tree that stands near the road side, and precipitated both the coachman and guard from their seats. The coachman was killed on the spot, and the guard escaped with some bruises; when the horses started otr at a most furious rate, and galloped into An dover at the rate of twenty miles an hour. There was only one inside passenger; and, strange to say, he was rot aware of anything amiss, until apprised of it by two gentlemen; who fortunately were returning from a party, and, seeing the horses proceeding at a furious rate up the town with no one on the box, ran and succeeded in stopping them just as they were totning into the George gateway.—Hampshire Paper. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE CWIPANIESAc. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 20. Viimber Dividend Price of per CANALS. pc, 14 ares. Ainimn. Paid. Shar: 1 . 7 66 7 pet cent. Ashton and Oldham.... Average 971. 18s. eh. 135 1,18 2 41. Ashby.de-le-Zouch Average 113/. sh. 65 1,260 Badngstokc lOO/. sh. 5 1,005 51. Breekrurk and Ahergavenny 150.. sh. 100 6,000 I-1681). 91 Os. (3irminghata, 1-16th share .... Si. St 711. 220 I 0 00 Ditto aT,d Liverpool Junct...l2s/. s i n 100 pd 26 60C .1. Bridgewater and Taunton -.1004 sla. all lx! 64 11 ) 0 41 Cbelmer and illackwater 1004 eh. lO2 5 00 481. Caventry leo/. sh. 7'5 4,515 Croydon 2,06;11 41. 0% aulley 0 1.2.0 11'. Derby 1004 sh. 153 2 1 ,000 4 per cent. :hymn, and 51,yne 3,5751 04 Eile,mere and Chester Ave;zge 131/. sh. •77 .:31 46'. - Er,,, a , h 't ' l l. t.'1.7 00 1,2117 s,q. Forth and CI yOe Average 1:401.1(is. eh. 585 1 1 ,!;00 121. Grand Junction I i ,01. sh. 220 2,5401 11. Cram) Unior 1001. sh 25 I 509 IOIV. al 20 a Grand Surrey -11,000.'. 1/. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lool. '7O 3,096 Grand Western 600 1^1.1_5. 1 .1. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1724 13E. Id. 230 .41) int. Grantham l5Ol. sh. 20'2 13,238 ' 21. 0a IludderAeld A rerage .57/. Os. fki. sh. 37 100 Kensington 100th. all pd. 10 25,328 1/. ss. Kennet ind Avon, Average:39/.lBs. 10d. sh . 26 2,8971 211. Leeds and Liverpool 1004 sh. 190 515; 13!. Leicester llO/. sh. 225 1,897 61. Os. Leicester and Northampton... Aver sal. :Os. 111 2,400 104 Monmouthshire 100 7 .s1). 20; 150 10!. Melton Mowbray 1004 sh. 200 500 "W. 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A v.7S/. 8,. sh. 79) 5,000 255. Wilts an, Berks .. Average 671. 10s. 841. sh. 22 800 31, Wyrley and Essington 1254 sh 73 • - cri ... ... ' Wisbeach 105!. sh. 45 905 i,. Wry and Armi llOl. sin 221 DO'.'KS. t,600/k 13p. c Commercial 1001. .11. 7 1,06515 h 40•4,647,4/. ti per ct. East India Stock 107 1,239,3101/. 503. p.ct. London Stock 57 Ditto itonds 9O 1,380,000/. W. p. ct. West India 2,‘209 21. 111 s. Bristol 68,3241. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine stock 100 5 00 , 00 0 43 per Pent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds lor 10 years 991 Shoreham U.rbour 2.500 Deptford Pier 2Ol. sh. 3/. BRIDGES. 1,600 l's. Dammersmitl• 5O/. sh. 7,931 Southwark, 01d............Ac. 6:31. 9s Bd. sh. 2 1 , 700 11. lss. Ditto, New, of 7,-; per cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 Waterloo lOOl. sh. 3 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of RI. 5,000 16s. Id, Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 164 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds llB 5,818 17s Vauxhall Avnage 70/. 10s. 3d. sh. 18 ASSURANCE CO:‘,IPANIES. 2,000 311's Albion 5001. sh. 50/. pd 80 50,000 [ ~,5 ner 4 cen , t 'l Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 1041. pd 131 50,000 6 per cents Ditto, Marine 105/. sh. 51. pd 61 24,000 f 1 per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14 1,200 ish. 51. Birmingham 1 ire '2so/. sh. 53/. pd 1071 20,000 41 percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 42 12,000 Cl. per cent. British Comm:. rcial 501. sh. 5/. pd 64 5,00). 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medi •al &c. Life ICol.sh. 2l ins pd 4 4,000 21 Ids County 1001. sh. 10/. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 000 r. 5 per cent. 1,, • Lill: /and :301 bs.S ""°nomic lOOOl. sh. 2201. pd 373 2,271 225. per cent. European Litz "01. sh. all pd 22 50, 000 2 s. Ditto, New .0/. sh. 2/. pd If 1,000,000/. 7/. per ct. Globe Stock 1501 20,000 51. Guardian lOOl. sh. 2711 pd 3.4 f 40,000 Cs. od. Hope 2,100 5/. 7s. Od. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 50/. pd 1261 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 10 13,158 41. per cent. Indemnity M:aine ... 1(01. sh. 8/. pd '2O 2,020 31 Ifis Kea t Fire 50/. sh. all pd 82 3/. Ditto Life. 79 10,000 16s. Law Life 100!. sh. 10/. pd 251 5.000 10s. London, Fire 25/. sh. 12/. 103. pd 1 , 3,900 10s. London, Ship 251. sh. 12/. Ills. pd I'i 30,0 , 0 5/. per cent. Paladium Lite 'O/. ah. 21. pd 2! 1a 041 50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fite 0 0/. sh. 21. pd 17s Od 2,500 1/. Provident Lite 100,00 0 ss. Rock Life 'kV. sh. I/. pd 61 689,9.,20/ 5/. per cent. Royal Exch tugs Stork... 2.:51 6 , 000 5 per cent. University Lite lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 51 59,000 4 per cent. United Kin; torn Life 2 l. pd JOINT STUCK B kNKS 25,000 8 percent.. Agric. anti Comm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10/. pd 14 5,000 Australasia 10,006 10 per cent. flank of Biliningham 5(l. sh. 101. pd 13 10,000 IQ per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. Si. pd 161 30000 5 per cent. London and Westminster.„lool sh. 201. pd 211 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster .... , ,„, 100/. sh. 20!. pd 50 '25,4100 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd '23 50,000 '7l percent Manchester and Liverpool] 1001 sh, 15/ pd 20 Discount SS 20,000 7 per eclat. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 27 20,000 Provincial 11 ink of Ireland 1001. sh. 25/. poi 39 20; CO National Rank of Ireland 5"/.811 171/. pd 16 10,000 5 per cent. National Pr.,viticial Eng. -100/. eh. 35/. pd 34 19,000 Gloucestershire 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 20 6,000 10 per cent. Harnyhire 501. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 I/ Ls 6d Bath 2Ol, sh. FL pd 24 5,000 Blitish 4O/. sh. 16/. pd 21 5,000 and IMPercenti Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 11) d 224 L Ils. se. 928 5/ 10s Birmingham 5O/. sh. 93 4,250 2/ Os Bristol 1,500 3? lOs Brighton 2O/. Eh. 11 750 31 irs Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 18/. pd it 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 201. oh. all pd 17 1,000 41, . Continental Consolidated lOO/. 621/. pd 85 1,000 10/. Cite of London lOO/. sh. all pd 196 1.000 01. Ditto, New 14,000 44. Pls. Equitable .... ` Ol. p 4 ZiO 3 / 4 10..00 7.1 per cant. Imperial 800 51. per cent. Isle , if Thanet 'l5l. sh. 201. pd 20 2,350 0/. per cent. I ndependent 3Ol. sh. a'l pd 481 9,000 31. per cent. Pturnix 50/. sh. 39/. pd 211 1,000 4/. per cent. Itateliff . 100/. sh. SO!. pd s'i 4,000 South ;'letrupolitan 5ll/. sh. 11'/. pd 17 8,200 5/. per cent. United General 3O/. sh. 46/. pd 296 240 5!. per cent. Warwick 50/. *lt. 50 ... .. .._. . .. 400 101. per cent Wakefield ' ?51. sh. 421 12,0n0 31. Westmirst?r Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New BCO Yarmouth 201. sh. IS/. pd 9 WATER WORKS. 1 ,800 9s. Birmingham 251. ch. '25/ pd 211 1,434 6/. East London lOO/. sh. 149 5 ,500 21 lOs Drawl Junction ....Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 5t 2,000 2/. Kent 1001. sh. 421 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 220/. sh. 3.6 1,500 2/ lOs New River London Bridge Water Annuities 59 6 ,484 I 1 15s Mr.ochester and Salford «IOU sh. 54 1,000 8 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 87 8,204 4/. West llitidlesex ....Average 031. 12s. 9d. sh. 90 1,360 1/ Lts York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 100/. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Derby 2O/. pd 17; 9,300 Birmingham and Gloucester 7,5110 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames .I:lnction Of 15;00 Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 10 pd 8 660 ....... .. Calcutta and Saugur 5Ol. sh. 2!. pd 0; 7,500 ........ . Cheltenham and G. Western-9101. sh. 711 3; 3,004 Clarence lOO/. sh. 100!. pd 29 ,'0..11 Commercial Blackwall 501. sh. 21. pd 6; 8,01 0 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 2; pd 2; Ii ,0041 Eastern Counties 23/. sh. 3/. pit 24 Grand Junction 1001. sh. 95/. p I ISA Great North of England lO/. pit 1; 5,C,)0 Greet Western tool sit. 051. pd Si; 2,0'10 Ilartlopool 100/. sh. I PO/ pd 100 S,OOO Hull and Selby 5t 11. sh. 10/. pd 64 10,0 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pet 14 2 ,100 31. per cent. Leeds and 5e1by..... . .. 10(1 sh. 41 1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington ....W. sh. all pd '7O 3,103 10 percent. Liverpool and Manchester-10(1.8h. 100/. pet 195 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd Ol 36,n00 ..• ...... London and Brighton 501. sh. 81. pd llf 12,t100 Loudon and Blackwall 51)1. sh. 3/ pd ( 1 1 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2Ol. sk. ;10/. pd , 18; 25,000 London and Birmingham ...1001. sh. ON. pd 165 Ditto Quarter Share: 5/. pd '.B `20, 0 00 London and Southampton...Wl. sh. 501. V 1 40 Ditto ditto New 7,000 London and Croydon Trunk el. sh. 211/. pd 224 ,0 al Ditto Scrip 14/ sh. 51. pd 14 1 7 2,000 Lcaidon Grand Junction 501. sh. 51. pet 01 1 11 ,000 M. , nchester and lii,iningham 70/.sh. 71. pd tl North Midland 100!. sh. 25/. pd 27; Northern and Eastern lOO l. sh. Cl. pd 5; 2,000 Preston and Wyre 50/ sh. 30/. pd = B , OO O ...... .. South Eastern and Dover ..71. pd 7 1, 1 100 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240 9,000 Thames Haven 50/ sh 21. 10s. pd 0; 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 50/. sh. 2!. pd 04 0,000 York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 121. pit 11# MINES. 1,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 331. pd 12 4,000 1 1. Sc. Alten Li/. sh. 121. lOs lid 10i 10,0Cr0 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. 51. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd 3 Ditto Subscription .251. pa 4 2,000 I , 'l. 1301 :nos 156/. sh all pd 071 10,000 U. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm. 151. sh. 20/ pd 19 6,0' 0 Macaubas & Cocaes United 25/. sh. 234/. pd 41 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Itey 20/. sh. 9/. pd 4-f I 0,000 Bolivar Copper Company, 20/. sh. 204 pd 5 111,1511) .... ..... Ditto Scrip 104 sh. SI. pd 6 20,000 British Iron .... 501. sh. 50/ pd 36 6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 4f/. pd 11 Cata Branca 9/. pd 8 Caiiilonga 10,000 11 Copiapo 2O/. sh 1241 pd (' 8,500 ...3/. Columbian, iss. 51. pm. .) -,A50 English l2/ ICe. pd 20,000 ...... -. General Mining Association...2o/. sh. Mt pd 10 6,155 Mexican Company... 100/. sh. 55M. pd 2 8,000 Polberon Consols lOl. sh. 81. pd 3 11,500 Real del Monte,_ Unregistered io Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd ISO 30,000 United Mexican, iss 2pm ...AO/. sh. all pd 3f ' DILL Scrip 2) Ditto New Scrip 5/ 141 4f IVest Cork O/. sh. 501. pd 38 lATER Ala INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket —75 gs. sh. 21 1,500 London University 1001. sh. all pd 231 700 King' College lON. pd 26 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Auitrallan Agricultural....lool. sh. 2ell. pd 40 6,090 41. per cent. British American Land Company '2dl. pd 13 10000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. OS/. pd 32 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan 5 City Bonds, 4 per cent lOl 15,000 IL 63. General Steam Navigation ...131 n. 13/. pd 21 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 000 o .., 11. London Com. Sale Rooms... ...... Av. 75/. sh. 19 8,000 Caoutchouc Company 25/. sh. 21/. pd 11 New Brunswick Land Compamy 431. pd 11 2754 51. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 1001. pd 1271 2,633 31. per cent. Ditto New 109/. sh. 701. pd 56 4,000 logy° 6s. Van Die.ner.'s Land 1001. sh. 171. pd 14 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. JAN. 30. 1838. BANKS. 1,500,00)/. N. p. ct. Bank 01 Scotland 831.65. Bd. A. all pd 1901. 2,000,0)(1. 5,1 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all lid 159 j/. 500,0)C/. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. AI pd '..,'Wl. 3,000,000!. 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. s h. 1001. pd 1751. 5.. J 00,00p a ~ n. et. viional .1004 sh. IN. pd 1611. 2,000,0001. ft p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 501. pd (9/. 1000,0‘.0/. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 301. pd 40/. INSURANCE COMPANIES. *25(..0005h. 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 1/, pd 2.515 7,500 (I,i p. ct. llercules lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 131 15s. 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....101. sh. all pd 815 s 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 16/. 1000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 104 pd IP/ 0, 5:000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 14/10s 100,1'09 3 i l p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd 71 Ps MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 Edin. and Glas. Un. Cana1...501. sh. all pd 2.'1. Ditto Allocated 961. sit. all pd 651. 5,100 5 per cent. E.linb. Joint Stock Water...4s/. sh. all pd 35/. Carron Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 451. 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shot ts Iron koundery 501. sh 3s/. pd 441. 10,00 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2O/. sh. 164 pd Si. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Ga , 251. sh. all pd 5.1 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 750 74 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 90/. sh. all pd 45/ 1, 2 05 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Ral'.way..,so/, sh 601, apao 5 per mt. Equitable Loin Cornpany,„•,s4ib. yi, pd 101. IMPERIAL PARLIAM ENT, HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEE. I. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour, but it wa some minutes before a House could be made. MARYLEBONE ELECTION. Lord EASTNOI3. appeared at the Bar, and reported from the Marylebone Election Committee the Resolutions which appear in cur report of that Committee, unseating Sir S. Whalley, for want of qualification. Anew writ was then issued for the Borough in the room of Sir S. Whalley. Mr. INGHAM presented a petition from South Shields, praying for the abolition of the duty on Marine In , trance3. The Hon. Member also presented a petition in favour of the abolition of Negro Apprenticediip, from the same place. Mr. LONG presented a petition from Devizes, and another from Chippcnha:n, to the acme effect. Lord C. FITZROY presented .several petitions to the same effect. Mr. HALL presented a petition from the Registration Society of the borough of Marylebane against the rate.pying clauses of the Reform Bill. The Hon. Nlemb , ,'r preented another petition from the same borough in favour of a:a Pa tents for Invention ; also a petition iu favour of Universal Suffrage, the Vote by Ballot, and Annual Parliaments; and a petition front the Churchwardens and Vestry of the parish of St. Pancras, complaining of the operation of the Poor-law Amendment Act. Mr. BAINES presented petitions from the counties of Westmoreland and Devon, praying for the abolition of the Negro apprenticeship system. Sir E. SUG DEN presented a petition signed by several hundreds of persons residing within 40 townships in the West Riding of Yorkshire, forming an union under Gilbert's Act. They deprecated any interference with their Union by the Poor-law Commissioners, and prayed that the poor might still continue to enjoy the benefits which they had hitherto experienced. The lion. Member presented a petition front the Guardians of the Union to the same effect.—Referred to the Poor•law Coramittee. Lord G. LENNOX presented a petition against the Salmon Fisheries Bill. Mr. WAKL EY presented a petition from thirty medical practitioners from Bradbury, Yorkshire, complaining of ths , pre sent state of the law, which allows persons to practice who are not properly educated. The Honourable Member then presented a petition from twenty owners of small tenements in Guisborough, in the North Riding of York shire, against the Bill for rating the owners of tenements. The Hos. Member also presented a petition from Finsbury against the Canada Coercion Bill. Mr. BRAMSTON presented a petition from Northumber land against the system of Negro apprenticeship. Mr. RAIKES CURRIE presented a petition from Northampton against the Poor-law Amendment Act. The Hon. Member stated that he could not concur in its prayer. Mr. HUGHES v presented a petition from Carnarvon against the Tolls levied upon Merchant Vessels. Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Berwick, Yorkshire, against the Poor Laws Amendment Act. The petition was signed by a great number of proprietors of land in the district from which the petition proceeded, with whom he (Mr. D.) was personally acquainted. Sir G. STRICKL AND supported the prayer of the petition. Mr. COLLIER presented petitions from Plymouth against the Poor-law Amendment Act. Mr. \YAK LE T presented a petition from the Brighton Registration and Patriotic Association against the Rating of Tenements Bill, which they were of opinion would reduce the number of electors already on the registry. In place of that they were in favour of Universal Suffrage. Captain PECHELL cordially supported the prayer of the petition. There was no town in the kingdom in which the Bill would do so much mischief in respect to the Registration of Electors. The Gallant Captain begged to give notice that on Thursday, the 29th instant, he would move for certain re turns connected with the duties of naval officers. Mr. Alderman COPELAND was of opinion there was no such day as the 29th of February. Captain PEC HE L L—l forgot. Then we will say the Ist of March. On the motion of Mr. V. SMITH, the second reading of tho Boundaries Bill was postponed till the 14th March. Mr. BAINES moved for a return connected with the su perintendence of factories. The lion. Member then moved for a return, which he stated to be necessary for the better understanding of a Bill then before the House for the assess ment of small tenements ; namely, the amount of sums received yearly by different parishes in England on account of those tenements. FIRE INSURANCE. Colonel SIBTHORP seeing the Right Hon. Gentleman, one of the Lords of the Treasury, in his place, begged to ask when the returns relating to the Stamp-duty on Fire Insu rance, which were moved for by him on the 14th of January, would be prepared ? Mr. R. STEUART'S answer was not heard in the gallery. Colonel SIBTHORP said that the officers could prepare the returns in two days if they liked. About a quarter to Fire o'Clock the House was counted out, there being only 29 members present. PRIVATE BUSINESS IN PARMA MENT.-(TESTERDAY.) . (From our Seoond Edition of last night.) SUB-COMMITTEE, No. IV. BIRKENHEAD IMPROVEMENT. The Committee decided that the Standing Orders relative to notices had not been complied with, inasmuch as the notice was not inserted in the London Gazette in proper title. The other notices were proved. Evidence was produced before the Committee by two rate payers of Birkenhead, that the inhabitants were not aware of the fact of any debt being contracted by the Commssioners under the original Act, until the tax gatherer called at their doors demanding their portion of an increased rate owing to such debt.—To be reported. HIGHAM-FERRERS (NORTHAMPTON) INCLO SURE. Petition for Bill read, signed by Earl Fitzwilliam, the (almost) solo proprietor of the place ; by the whole of the Iligham-Ferrera Corporation; and by almost every adult indi vidual in the parish. The consent of the Duchy of Lancaster had also been obtained to the renewal of certain leasehold lands (with a view to the inclosare) held by Earl Fitzwilliam of the Duchy. The circumstances under which the present appli cation was made did not arise until January last ; consequently the notices were not given previously to that month. The Committee decided that under such circumstances the Standing Orders upon Notices had been complied with.—To be reported. FISHGUARD HARBOUR. Petition for Bill, read. Notices moved—unopposed. To be reported. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) (From our Second Edition of last night.) MARYLEBONE. The Committee mot at two o'clock yesterday; Lord EASTNOR in the Chair. Mr. D. Pollock, Mr. Paine, Mr. Bailey, and Mr. Chambers appeared for the petitioners; Mr. Austin, Mr. Cockburn, and Mr. Theobald for the sitting Member, Sir S. Whalley. Mr. POLLOCK said the petition stated two grounds of objec tion ; one of a personal nature, and the other with respect to the votes. The decision as to the qualification, whether it should be in favour of, or against, the sitting Member, would not touch the other question which arose upon a scrutiny of the votes ; because, Lord Teynmoutb would have to establish himself in a majority, before he could claim his seat. The Learned Gentleman was proceeding to enter into a detail of the qualification case, when he was interrupted by Mr. AUSTIN, who said that although the particulars of the qualification were exactly and literally correct, yet, in order to save the time of the Committee, and avoid the expenses of a long and harassing investigation, the sitting Member had come to the resolution of not giving the other side any further trouble. The Committee would therefore find Sir Samuel Whalley not qualified as by law required. Mr. POLLOCK said, as the striking off such a large majo rity as 398 votes would be attended with great expense in the scrutiny, and as the proceeding now taken would void the elec tion, and call on the constituency to elect a new member, be should not trouble the Committee with a scrutiny, and they would have simply to declare that the election was void in con sequence of the want of a qualification. The room was then ordered to be cleared. On our re-admission the CHAIRMAN said the Committee had come to the following resolutions : " Resolved—That at the time of the last election and re turn for the borough of Marylebono, Sir Samuel St. Swithin Burden Whalley was n9t seized or possessed of or entitled to a sufficient estate at law or in equity, in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, to qualify him to be elected or to serve as a Member in Parliament for the said borough of Marylebone. " That the election of the said Sir S amue l S t. Swithia Burden Whalley for the said borough of Marylebone is void " That the petition of Jonathan Robinson an d others does. not appear to the said Committee to be friv o l ous or vexatious. That the opposition te the said petiti on d oes not appear to the said Committee to be frivolous or vexatious. That the petition of Thomas M urp h y does not appear to the said Committee to be frivol ous or vexatious. That the opposition to the said petition does not appear to the said Committee to be frivolous or vexatious." SLIGO. Mr. HARRISON asked the witness, had he brought with him copies of the correspondence which had passed between him and the nominal petitioners, respecting the Sligo Election ? Mr. THRSSIGER objected to the question, on the ground that the Speaker's warrant served upon the witness requiring him to produce the documents was vague and insufficient. The room was again cleared, and upon the re-admix. sion of strangers, the Chairman stated the decision to be that Mr. Harrison should put any question respecting any letters connected with the late Sligo election. Mr. HARRISON then repe ate d his question, whether the wit ness had brought with him copies of letters receired by him in his character of Secretary to the Irish Election Fund Society, on the subject of the Sligo Election ? Witness replied that he had only received one letter on the subject, and that was private and confidential. Mr. TIIESSIGER objected to any further questions respecting that letter, as private, and not in any way connected with the petitioners. After a long discussion the room rus again cleared, and the Committee having deliberated with closed doors for about 20 minutes, decided that Mr. Harrison might proceed with t►.e examination. Th. witnei; was finally ordered to produce the letter (which wls from Mr. West, of Dublin), nnd the books of the Society, to-morrow. Witnesi asaured the Committee that all that was said about Sligo in the letter was, that some money was wanted.—( A laugh.) Colonel Percival rum then called. Ho bore testimony to the respectability of . Mr. Tyler, one of the petitioners ; he did not know the others; did not know that Mr. Tyler was indemnified for . the expenses of the petition. Witness re tained Messrs. Austin and Thessiger for the petitioners. Wit nePs had had no communication with Mr. West and Mr. Shaw or the Conservative Committee, respecting- the election. Mr. HArottsoN then ap:died for, and obtained a peremptory order for the attendance of John Barwin, of St. Martin's-lute, watchmaker, who had refused to attend upon the Speaker's warrant. Mr. BAN HR, the agent to Mr. Somers, was called to prove the ex :enst23 of defending that Gentleman's sett. There lvd been three petitions. Severn witnesses were brought over from Ireland to disprove allegations of the petition, which were afterwards abandom-d. The Committee then adjourned. BELFAST. The votes of Tobias McQuaid, E. Troland, and H. 3 1 . Loman, were struck off, on the ground of insufficiency of value, and the Committee adjourned shortly after four o'clock. Frederick Gifford Nash, the Senior Scholar of Christ's Hospital, has received instructions from the Governors of the establishment to wear the gold medal (which he ob tained subsequent to the occasion when he delivered the ad dress to her Majesty on her visit to Guildhall), at the " public suppers," which take place every S u nday evening, at this season of tite year, in the hall of the school. Friday a rnectilig of merenants, shipowners , a nd others, was held at the City of London Tavern, for the pur pose of considering the propriety of memorialising the L ord Mayor and the Gresham Committee, to remove the 'Cha n g e from Guildhall to the area of the Excise-office, ia Broad street. There were present several of the most influen tial merchants of the City. Thomas Wilson, Esq., formerly o ne of the Members for the City, took the chair. A latter was read from Mr. spring Rice, sanctioning the appropriation of the area of the Excise-office to the purposes proposed, should the merchants consider that the removal of " Exchange" to Guildhall would afford facilities to the trade of the City. Some discussion took place as to whether a memorial should be drawn up, expressive of the wish of the mereiests of London to that effect ; but the meeting was informed, that to the Gresham Committee, under the will of Sir Th( seas Gres ham, belonged the duty of providing a place for the assem bling of the merchants. A memorial was then laid on the table, signed by many of the principal firms in the City. in favour of the removal of the 'Change to the Excise-Ace- The memorial, which has been in private circulation for some days, was then unanimously adopted, and ordered to be laid at Lloyd's and other places, to receive the names of other merchants favourable to the removal, preparatory to its being presented to the Lord Mayor and the Gresham Committee. A subscription having been entered into to defray the neces sary expenses, the meeting adjourned. It was stated that the Commissioners of the Excise have been making p re paration s . already to accommodate the merchants, should the business of the Royal Exchange be removed to the Excise-office. In consequence of tile severity of the frost for the last four days, a great quantity of ice had accumulated in the River Thursday morning., particularly in the lower Pool, but it was not of sufficient thickness to cause any material obstruc tionl to the navigation, and the warmth of the sun got rid of t ell above Greenwich. Between that place and Gravesend, however, large blocks of ice were met with, and mach injury ~ has been done to the paddle floats of th e s t eam - vesse ls. " e Gravesend steamers, which re -commenced running on M OT " day, have suffered much from the ice in the lower part of th e River. About six o'clock on Sunday morning, the 1 ltb inst., the shop of Mr. Best, silversmith, Wimpole-stre et, was burglariously entered by forcibly removing the shutters and iron plates, and breaking a square of plate 0 .0, .41 property to the amou n t o f 1001. was s t o l en , cons isting of go' and silver watches, tea and egg spoons, with which they go t clear off. The noise caused by the breaking of the glees awoke the brother of the proprietor, who slept in the room above, but on his descending into the shop he found his egre ss prevented by about four yards of strong cord, which was bound several times from the handle of the door to the shutter W; It is probable they would have taken property to a m ue greater amount had they not been disturbed. The thieves left behind them three wooden wedges they had used to Ms ° the shutter bars. On Tuesday evening, one of the Portsmouth coaches was upset near Cobham, on its way from London t o Portsmouth, by the axletree breaking. The accident oc curred on a level piece of ground, to which the coachale?, going that road have given the name of the " Fair M ile. ot , There were four inside and twelve outside paosen o e te,, _ whom nine were convicts from Norwich, chained togA her handcuffs and leg-irons, besides the coachman and gu ar The inside passengers escaped without injury, but were ter ribly frightened when the coach fell. The coachma n v ras stunned by the fall, and received serious braises on th e tem plc. One of the keepers in charge of the convicts re ceived very serious injuries ; three of his ribs were fractured, an d he has met with other hurts. None of the convicts were at all injured. After some delay a van was procured, in which th e convicts were conveyed to Portsmouth. The passengers also proceeded on their journey soon afterwards in another conch. The wounded keeper was left at an inn in the neigh bourhood, and wehave sxesear i heard that ho is going on as fa vourably as can be expected. I lIE IV EATIIER.—STATE OF TIIE RIVER.---It is a gratifying fact that, owing to the rapid thaw of the last two days, the ice on the river has, notwithstanding the sharp frost of Monday night, so much diminished as to offer no se rious obstruction to the navigation, and what remains is so rotten that vessels, and even the small craft, are enabled tO h get through it without much difficulty. At the top Of hi p water yesterday morning there was a largo quantity of i.ehad the Upper Pool, and the tiers of shipping near the shore the some trouble in getting in and out, but in the middle of I! stream the steam-vessels broke up the ice and smashed, , 0 I addle it was so soft that little or no injury was done to the P floats, and the coal craft were freely navigated. The largest field of ice was seen from the west end of the Custom-hougt, to the cast end of the Tower-wharf, extending nearly half way across the river, and all communication with the FeeseoB tender ship teas cut off until a channel was cut throug,b t he ice. The ebb tide carried a:good deal of it away into the lone r part of the river, and the noon-day sun, which shone wit h usual brilliancy, like a warm spring day, dissolved and loo se r a good deal more. In the afternoon a smart shower of rai followed, which sunk the drifting ice, and when the tid e rO5, in the evening not much was to he seen. The docks are el' opened for the admission and departure of shipping, and the long interruption to commerce and the extensive trade of w thl port of London has in a great measure ceased. The in' during the day continued about east-south-east, and very calm- There were no arrivals or departures of any consequence' h'rom the quantity of shipping detained at Falmouth, Ply mouth, and Portsmouth extensive arrivals may be expecte d this week. LADIES' GOLD WATCHE S-- :, A variety of excellent and carefully finished Ladies' Sec ond-hgn" Gold Watches, many of them in accordance with the latest taste, with Gold Dials, Jewelled, &c., are offered for selection, price Six to Eight Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S, price f tc ro h- m maker, Gold and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street). N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., at Vine Lodge, Sevenoaks, the lady of J' Rogers jun., Esq., of a (laughter. Ow the 18th inst., at Culloden House, Wandsworth-road, MO' S. Page, of a daughter. On the liith inst., at Denmark-road, Camberwell, the wife of . Mr. John Geary, of a son. On the 18th inst., Mrs. Thomas Donaldson, of Thomas ..street, Horselydown, of a son. On the 14th inst., at Loughton, Essex, the lady of E. Witherby , Esq., of twins, boys. MARRIED. On the 15th ult., at St.G;Org - &; Church, Hanover •square, Thomas Sims, of the Wellington-road, St. John's-wood, to Char lotte, youngest daughter of Mr. Joseph Wyld, of Shepherd-stree t, Mayfair. On the 6th inst., in the Independent Chapel, Bilstosi, Stafford shire, William Ernest Morris, of the same place, to Sarah Sharrall , from near Walsall. On the 13th inst., at All Saints' Church, Southamp ton , the Rev. Robert Maynard, to Charlotte, only surviving daughter of the late Edward Middleton, M.D. On the '2,1 of December last, at the establishment of the National Brazilian Mining Company, in the province of Minas Geraes, Bra zil, where he resided as the Company's Chief Commissioner, Bar tholomew M'Donnell, Esq., aged 48, second son of the late Randle M'Donuell, Esq., of Dublin. DIED. On the 10th inst., aged 50, Mr. Thomas Hopkins, beadle of the Stationers' Campany. At Aberdeen, on the 13th inst., Lucy, relict of T. H. Leith, Esq., of Whitehaugh, Aberdeenshire. On the 15th inst., at Milestone Kant, Mr. Robert Stevenson, formerly of Kennington-lane, Vauxhall. On the 16th inst., at Bath, aged 81, Mrs. Sarah Adams, of Castle-street, Reading. On the 16th inst., at the Deanery, Bangor, the Very Roy. Robert John Warren, M.A., Dean of Bangor, and Prebendary of Lich field, aged 71. of On the 18th inst., in Nottingham-place, Frederick, infant s on F. Huth, jun., Esq. On the 16th inst., Mr. Thomas Gaze, of Church-street , Lam beth, aged 72. On the 17th inst., at. Richmond, Surrey, Laura, wife of Henry Hopwood, Esq. M On the 11th inst., i n N ewman - s t ree t, I. Sebastian Sibi lle, in his 85th year. On the 18th inst., in Robin Heod-yard, Leather-lane, Holborn, Mr. John Street, aged 69. On the 19th inst., at Dalston, Mr. George Goddard, solicitor, of Basinghall-street, aged .35. On the 18th inst., at Acton Lodge, Middlesex, aged 58, Lieut.: Colonel Hugh Montgom€ry, of Blessingburn, in the countY ° I Tyrone. On the 19th inst. ' at Tryons-place, Hackney, aged 7 0 , Eliz abeth, relict of th e l a t e E . C. Mackmurdo, Esq., of Clapton, Middlesex. On the 18th inst., in Gloucester-place, Marylebone, the Rev' Benjamin Lawrence, Rector of Darley-dale, Derbyshire. London Printed and Published by 111URDO YOUNG, of N.. 112, Strand, a t Th e Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the awing of Afidaiesex.—Thursday, February 22, 183 e. a' I i